Arts feature
Is wrestling an art?
It isn’t easy selling out Wembley Stadium with its capacity of between 70,000 and 90,000 (depending on the exact arrangement).…
The woman who pioneered colour photography
Hermione Eyre on Yevonde, the pioneering 1930s photographer whose colour portraits evoke a vanishing world
We must save this Tudor masterpiece for the nation
Jonathan Ruffer calls for the return to Britain of the Tudor tapestry that proclaims the birth of the Church of England
How Ukrainians are making the lives of even anti-Putin Russian artists impossible
Zoe Strimpel talks to the anti-Putin Russian artists who have been cancelled since the invasion of Ukraine
In praise of goths – the most enduring of pop subcultures
Michael Hann on the most enduring of pop subcultures
‘Netflix are incredibly conservative’: documentary-maker Nick Broomfield interviewed
Adam Sweeting talks to the documentary-maker Nick Broomfield about the forgotten Rolling Stone
From Botticelli to Marvel: why artists love St Francis
Laura Gascoigne on the pulling power of St Francis of Assisi
From Bayeux to Cartier-Bresson: how artists have brought the coronation crowds to life
Dan Hitchens on the art that has shaped our image of the coronation
John Gielgud and Richard Burton’s fraught, botched, triumphant Hamlet
Robert Gore-Langton on John Gielgud and Richard Burton’s fraught, botched, triumphant Hamlet
What the V&A Dundee exhibition doesn’t tell you about tartan
Angus Colwell is not convinced that the V&A Dundee’s exhibition Tartan is what the city needs
Why Christopher Wren died thinking his life had been a failure
Adrian Tinniswood on the fall and rise — and fall and rise — of England’s greatest architect
A look inside Britain’s only art gallery in jail
Stuart Jeffries meets the prisonerartists of HMP Grendon
How fog gripped the Victorian imagination
Christine L. Corton on how fog gripped the Victorian imagination
The rise of the modern British B-movie
Robert Jackman on the rise of the modern British B-movie
The cult of Morse
As the cult series draws to its conclusion, Tanya Gold travels to Morsefest in Oxford to meet the detective’s devoted followers
Ukraine must stop destroying its cultural heritage
Ukraine must stop demolishing its public statues, says Yevheniia Moliar
Blue monkeys, bull-leaping and child sacrifice: why were the Minoans so weird?
Daisy Dunn on the mysterious Minoans
The mysterious world of British folk costume
Christopher Howse on the transformative power of folk costume
How Vermeer learnt to embrace the everyday – and transfigured it
Laura Gascoigne on Vermeer’s women
Wars of the roses
Matthew Wilson on the female medieval poet who rescued the flower’s reputation
My hunt for the Holy Grail: Damned drummer Rat Scabies interviewed
Revd Steve Morris talks to former Damned drummer Rat Scabies about his journey from punk rock to the Holy Grail
The art of art restoration
Frank Lawton talks to Maurizio De Luca, former chief restorer at the Vatican, about the pitfalls of his profession
Why I hate Beethoven’s Pastoral symphony
Norman Lebrecht on his hatred of Beethoven’s Pastoral
Petrol, seawater and blood: the horror of Cornwall
Tanya Gold talks to cult director Mark Jenkin about his ominous vision of Cornwall
Do conductors have to be cruel to be good?
Richard Bratby on monstrous maestros
